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Edessa euscidorsata. 

 E. saturate, Dall., affinis, differt cornubus pronoti fere paullulum longiori- 

 bus, dorso abdominis fusco, connexivi angulis multo latins nigris, macula 

 media inter has, angusta, lutea, ventre obscure olivaceo-brunneo, colore s/iperne 

 obscure viridi. 



Habitat in Mexico et Bogota. 



ASPONGOPUS NIGRO^EISTEUS. 

 Totus nigro-ceneus ; capite, pronoto et scutello dense subtiliter punctatis,' 

 rugis transversis obsoletis ; capitis lateribus distincte sinuatis ; antennis 

 articulo secundo primo paullo magis quam dimidio longiore, secundo et tertio 

 rompressis, hoc illo distincte longiore {ultimi desunl) ; corio margine apicali 

 leviter rotundato ; prosterno medio triangular iter impresso, marginibus im- 

 pressionis vix reflexis. Long. 16^ mm. Ab A. ochreo, Westw., colore, pro- 

 stemi impressione minus profunda, punctura densiore, rugis vix distinguendis 

 divergens. 



Habitat in Si am. 

 Helsingfors : January 2\st, 1881. 



Captures of Hemiptera in 1880. — During a three-weeks' stay last August at 

 Wymondley, Herts, I found bugs by far the most abundant of all Orders. Nettles 

 yielded the following species in the utmost profusion : — Scolopostethus cuffinis, Lygus 

 pabulinus, Spinolai and Kalmii, Hyrsoptera ruffrons, Orthotylus Scotti, Heterotopia 

 merioptera, Plagiognathus arbustorum, and Antliocoris nemo rum ; while Sehirus 

 bicolor, Phytocoris ulmi, Capxus laniarius and Liocoris tripustulatus, occurred com- 

 monly. Megalocerata longicornis was common amongst coarse herbage, but M. erratica 

 was conspicuous by its almost total absence in either larval or perfect form. Of the 

 handsome genus Calocoris, besides C. roseomaculatus and bipunctaUis, I took 2 

 fulvomaculatus, 1 sexguttatus, 1 infusus, and a few chenopodii, all by sweeping. 

 Ononis yielded Dicyphus annulatus commonly and a few Macrocoleus Paykullii. 

 On Epilobium hirsutum I found in great abundance a pale green Dicyphus, which 

 Mr. Edward Saunders tells me is D. stachydis, Rent. ; I have 6ince found it on the 

 same plant at Hastings. A small patch, a few square yards in extent, in a flowery 

 meadow on the chalk near Stevenage, yielded, besides a lot of ordinary things, 

 Halticus apterus, Orthocephalus saltator, Anoterops setulosus, Macrocoleus 

 molliculus, Megalocerata ruficornis, plenty of Calocoris roseomaculatus, and 

 immense numbers of Monanthia cardui, the thistle-heads being absolutely swarming 

 with the last, in all its stages. A larch plantation afforded 1 Atractotomus mayni- 

 cornis, Fall., and several Tetraphleps vittata, larval and adult. Amongst other 

 things may be mentioned Malacocoris chlorizans, very common on hazel ; Triphleps 

 minuta, abundant by sweeping ; 1 $ Microphysa elegantida, on lime-bark ; 1 

 Pceciloscytus nigritus, 1 Orthotylus bilineatus, and a few Chlamydatus ambulans, 

 Campyloneura virgula, Nabis brevipennis, Dictyonota crassicornis, and Derephysia 

 fofiacea. I am indebted to Mr. Edward Saunders for the names of some of the 

 above. At Battle, near Hastings, Strachia festiva was common in September, 



